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by: Ali Farka Toure

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Average Rating: Rating: - Universal Sounds A stunning collaboration hihglighting Ali Farka Toure's uncanny ability to evoke deep southern blues and Ry Cooder's equallly uncanny ability to blend traditional music with his own jazz and blues sensibilty (as well as that of guests such as bassist John Patatucci and Clarence Gatemouth Brown)in a respectful and successful way. This album will appeal to many people including fans of Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder as well as anyone who appreciates blues. This is contemplative music that can really set a mood; gentle and deeply funky all at the same time. Rating: - great collanboration This CD is the result of a great collaboration between two very talented but different musicians. Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure. Toure plays in a rhythmic blues influenced style that is evocative of John Lee Hooker and Lighnin Hopkins. The music here is contemporary yet distinctly African. Cooder and Toure are supported by a great group of session musicians here including jazz bassist John Patitucci and guitarist Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown. This recording is ideal for anyone interested in African music from a blues perspective. Rating: - Powerful reminder of where the Blues came from. Like "A Meeting by the River," this is a very successful collaboration by Ry Cooder and an artist from another culture. The two of them converse readily with one another, using their instruments. Ali Farka Toure has a voice and a steel-string guitar sound that are powerful, piercing, plaintive. It is hard to believe that Ali Farka Toure is not a bluesman from the Mississippi Delta. Which is to say, this album illustrates the African roots of the Blues that were subsequently played in the U.S. This album also illustrates the development of string music in Africa. Learned about this album, and other music by Ali Farka Toure, on the NPR program "Afropop", where I also learned that string music was later brought to the U.S. by Africans imported as slaves, who then instructed their "masters" in how to play guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Albums like this one make events from other times, places, and cultures come vividly alive in the present moment.

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